Premiere: Matters - A Beginning

The Brkn Record is a new project led and produced by Jake Ferguson, the co-founder and bass player for the UK’s foundational deep jazz outfit the Heliocentrics. With fellow Heliocentrics co-founder and legendary drummer Malcolm Catto, Ferguson has been a regular collaborator with globally recognised artists including Archie Shepp, Mulatu Astatke, Melvin Van Peebles, Orlando Julius and many others.

The Architecture of Oppression Part 1 represents Ferguson’s debut as a bandleader and orchestrator, and manifests as a committed and soulful response to ongoing and systemic anti-black racism, social oppression and state violence both at home in London and across the globe. Combining poetry, testimony and song with rich and cinematic backdrops, Ferguson has produced a sui generis sound that conjures flavours of Arthur Verocai, Ennio Morricone, classic library productions, Madlib-style deep-jazz beat science, and psychedelic soul. With bandmate Malcolm Catto on drums, Ferguson draws on their long years of collaborative experience in the Heliocentrics to build an album of striking texture and depth. 

But the album does not only reflect Ferguson’s full-spectrum musical prowess, experience and vision. It is equally a manifestation of his longstanding and high-profile work as a frontline activist for racial justice and social equity in London and beyond.

Alongside Malcom Catto, contributors to the album are drawn from the intersecting worlds of community activism, cultural education, politics and music, and include singer and political activist Jermain Jackman, Zara MacFarlane; Chicagoan activist, poet and singer Ugochi Nwaogwugwu; Lee Jasper, longstanding worker for racial justice and former advisor on equalities to the Mayor of London; acclaimed performance poet Dylema; Hackney community leader Janette Collins MBE and Leroy Logan MBE, founder and former chair of the Black Police Association, and the subject of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe episode ‘Red, White and Blue’.

The Architecture of Oppression Part 1 is a singular and urgent chronicle of the black British experience, an upful expression of Pan-African creative unity and community solidarity, and a militant and unbending missive from the frontline in the great tradition of The Impressions’ This Is My Country, Irreversible Entanglements Who Sent You?, Max Roach’s We Insist - Freedom Now Suite, or Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Bass Culture.

A broken record repeats itself, and never plays through – the music is interrupted or trapped in a cycle by damage to the grooves. But The Brkn Record is a work of healing and protection, and a chance to let the full story be heard – all the way to the end, no skips.

The Brkn Record - Hackney Ain’t Innocent (feat. Yolanda Lear)

Watanogetenemaaay

Bola "Volume 7" ATFA002

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Bola — Abayetidu Ma

I had the beat only: drums, percussion sounds and breaks, and then added a bit of the synth bass to it. I liked the afro-beatish kind of raw sound of those elements and then Milton Gulli of Cacique '97 (@cacique97) - Portugal's leading afro-beat band - came to my mind. I sent him the beat to Maputo, where he now lives, and a few weeks later I was surprised by how much love he put back into his contribution: all the guitars, bass line and synths were played and recorded over the original beat. All I did afterwards was find the perfect vocal sample to complement Milton's input. I've been playing this track live with my Meu Kamba collective and it's a real banger.

Meu Kota EP

Rocky Marsiano - Chama-Chama (feat. Milton Gulli)

"Black Cloud" EP released in 2018 on Mamie's Records
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Cello ～ Anissa Altmayer
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Black Cloud

Water No Get Enemy

Kodäma • Water No Get Enemy

Asnakech Worku — Kand Yerega Deg New

With a propulsive but understated bass and percussion groove underneath her, vocalist and trombonist Siya Makuzeni whips out her FX pedal, transmuting a mystical lyric about finding self, a higher force or perhaps a loved one into a textured, magical seance.

This is the first single from the upcoming, self titled, debut album from SPAZA, which will be out on 21 June 2019, both digitally and on vinyl. For more info, head over to https://spaza.bandcamp.com/album/spaza

About SPAZA:
Conceived in the Mushroom Hour lab, SPAZA is a band with no permanent personnel, with each line-up assembled for the express purpose of recording completely improvised or workshopped material. For this, the initial salvo, SPAZA was put together from a group of musicians with individual and collective links to Johannesburg’s jazz, afro funk and experimental electro scenes, namely Siya Makuzeni (vocals, trombone & FX), Nosisi Nokukhanya Ngakane (vocals & FX), Waldo Luc Alexander (electric violin & FX pedals), Gontse Jnsq Makhene (percussion & vocals), Ariel Zamonsky (upright bass) and João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga (synthesizers & electronics).

Credits:
Performance recorded live at the Spaza Art Gallery, Troyeville, Johannesburg on 17 May 2015 
Performance curated by Andrew Curnow & Nosisi Ngakane 
Performance recorded by Andrew Curnow and Nhlanhla Mngadi 
Sound Engineering for performance by Tebogo Laaka 
Recording mixed by Dion Monti 
Recording mastered by Norman Nitzsche at Calyx Mastering 
Recording edited and produced by Dion Monti and Andrew Curnow 
Cover Art and Design by Graeme Arendse 
Executive Production by Andrew Curnow 
Published by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

SPAZA

SPAZA - Ice Squinchies (Waiting For You)

Comoro Archipelago, 2015
Reissued by Secousse in 2020
Artwork by Erwan Coutellier
Remastering by Nicolas Thelliez 
More infos and purchase ☛https://secousse.bandcamp.com/album/nduzangou

Zaza - Nduzangou (snippet)

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track produced and written by Gingee @gingeeworld 
vocals and percussion by Gingee  
mastered by EQPT Mastering @djequip 
cover art shot by @hello.its.marko

Keep Moving

Latest show for Soho Radio, this time featuring a guest mix from Berlin-based Colombian selector Edna Martinez, who delivered us a schooling in makossa, zouk and the likes from her amazing record collection!

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Zaza - Nduzangou (snippet)

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